Residents continue waiting on Hurricane Harvey relief funds as the Texas General Land Office left the City of Houston out of distribution plans a second time.
Local leaders are asking federal agencies to take over distributing Hurricane Harvey relief funds after the General Land Office denied aid to the city of Houston for the second time. FOX 26's Chelsea Edwards shows us how it is affecting residents still feeling the impacts of Hurricane Harvey.
"No walls!" she says giving a tour of her living room. "When it rains, it still rains in here. You can see I tried to tape up the dust through the cracks. It’s unlivable and unbearable... Who wants to stay in a house that's duct-taped together?" "Zero, zero to Houston," says Congressman Al Green during a press conference held at his office Saturday morning. Friday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development accepted a plan from the Texas General Land Office to give $750 million to Harris County, after GLO denied funding to both the city and county in 2021.
According to the mayor’s office, Houston and Harris County took on half of all Harvey damage. The office recommended both receive at least one billion dollars each in federal aid.